Yes, that could be a possible work around. I will have to look into it. I wonder what all that faxviewer needs to work in Wine. Have to see if I can try it.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]>wrote: > Another possible solution would be to see if the windows viewer that all > the users know will run under wine. > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, for some reason the lines even on a good white > > rendering come out gray rather than black. As to re- > > scanning them, with Emhart it is what it is. I would > > be happy if I could just see all of the pages, the fun > > thing is that the fax viewer on Windows will view them > > just fine. Indeed at times I have to go move them to > > a Win XP box to open them as I get tired of fighting > > with all of the issues on my linux box. > > > > What are you viewing them with? As I said, the light > > lines, seems to be a part of the way they come out > > and I know that has been that way ever since I worked > > with them, but the multi-page, that is my real issue. > > The only thing that is working at this time is Image > > Magic, and that is kind of fiddly to get from one page > > to another. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > > > > > Here is the link to some tiff samples: > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl0drntnnj5w6vs/TfUaN2mHqd > > > > > > > I have imagemagic and it will display them but the 2nd page > > > > is sort of grayed out, I can see the drawing but it is gray and > > > > the lines are just deeper gray. > > > > > > Chuck, > > > > > > When I look at the three pages on dropbox.com, the first two pages > > are > > > so > > > faint they're barely readable. The third page is sufficiently dark to > be > > > easily read. > > > > > > Perhaps the issues are with the .tif files and not the viewers? > > > > > > BTW, I get scanned documents from clients quite frequently. They're > > all > > > .jpg files and I wonder if whomever in the Engineering Department > creates > > > these drawings can scan them in a bit-mapped format other than TIFF. > > > > > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > > Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. > > The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
